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- ^Additional Exercises - Remembering Foreign Vocabulary\
-
- Try applying the systems you have just learned to help you memorise some of
- the basic vocabulary of any language you choose. If you are planning a
- foreign holiday this year, then the choice of language will be obvious. If
- not, perhaps there is a country you would like to visit at some time in the
- future. Obtain a simple phrase book from your local library, and set
- yourself a task of memorising a minimum number of words or phrases per day.
- By applying the Memory Master systems, you will soon build up an impressive
- vocabulary in your chosen language.
-
- Many people, when faced with a phrase book containing foreign translations
- of English words, give up after trying to memorise just a few of the words
- or phrases. They find it such hard work trying to commit the information to
- memory that they abandon the task all together. You now have the knowledge
- to make that task a |creative\ one.
-
- Remember that the most important words in any foreign language are always
- the ^nouns\. Suppose you are visiting a foreign country for the first time,
- and are suddenly taken ill. You don't need to know how to say 'Please could
- you tell me where the nearest...', or 'Can you direct me to a ...', but you
- had better know the word for >doctor\ !~